Back in 1996, In Flames released ‘The Jester Race’, their most influential album to date, through Nuclear Blast. One year earlier, the two other highlights of the Swedish metal scene, namely At the Gates and Dark Tranquility, came up with their respective ‘Slaughter of the Soul’ and ‘The Gallery’ …

If you’re a fan of classical music, the standards, then you probably love Frank Sinatra. With this album released in 1992, 16 Most Requested Songs, you get everything you could hope for from The Chairman Of The Board.
Old blue eyes never disappoints for a fan such as myself. His …

Artist: SWV ft. Missy Elliott
Video: “Can We”
Album: Release Some Tension/”Booty Call” Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: RCA Records
“Can We” is the first single and music video from SWV’s third album titled “Release Some Tension”, following the previous “It’s About Time” and “New Beginning”. “Can We” is also a single and music …

This album is the latest in Neil Hannon’s belt, and a release I have looked forward to for a long time. The cd features sixteen brand new tracks composed and preformed in part by Hannon himself as in most of his other music.
Below is half of the track list …

Overview —“ Paranoid, the second album released by Black Sabbath expands on the direction they introduced with their debut album and they somehow take that infamous dark sound and make it even better. Personally I thought that the debut album was extremely strong and innovative but Paranoid took this …

Ever had one of those moments when you see who is number 1 in the singles chart and when you see the artist you feel so far removed from mainstream music that you literally say, “Who?”.
I had one of these moments but thought I would have a listen to …

For those guitar players out there, you know how hard it can be to find good tabs for popular songs, and when you find one there are usually a few mistakes. While you try to find the tab to a song like “All Nightmare Long” you will find that …

I am a big fan of many types of music, so I would describe my musical taste as eclectic. I love rock, some pop, classical, alternative, rhythm and blues, jazz, soul, and gospel. A lot of the mixed CDs that I mix myself from my iTunes downloads or from …

Dancing With Mr. D is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Goats Head Soup. The track starts off with a fairly laid-back guitar riff from Richards which seems to have a blues feel to it but the drum rhythm sort of gives the song …

I’ll Be There is a song by Megadeth which appears on their record Risk. I’ll Be There starts off with a very fast guitar riff which really is just noise at an extremely frantic tempo before leading into a synthesizer part which actually sort of has an Eastern sound …

Disintegration/Free Money is a song by Slayer which appears on their record Undisputed Attitude. Like the rest of this record, this song is a cover of a punk band known as Verbal Abuse. To be fair, I didn’t really like this record very much and didn’t think Slayer did …

I Need A Miracle is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their album Shakedown Street. The track opens up with a nice rock and roll rhythm which gives a nice ground for the vocals to sing over. The vocal melody on this track works very well …

This is a review for GHS Electric Boomers guitar strings. These have been around since 1964 and have been a standard in the industry. The great thing about these is the price and consistency of the strings. I’ve been through every brand of string you could imagine and I’m …

I first loved Randy Crawford way back 1982, when I was 12 years old, upon hearing “People Alone.” Her voice was so sweet and soothing, and everyone among my 12-year old crowd loved her. “One Hello” was also a …

“Horsemen of the Invisible” appears on the Secret Chiefs 3 album “Book M”. Now for those of you who are open to new music, I highly recommend checking this band out. They are incredibly talented and incorporate a ton of different instruments, from your standard guitars, bass, drums and …

Piggy is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album The Downward Spiral. Something I’ll mention right away is that this song features real drums which is something Nine Inch Nails really don’t do all that often, but more importantly, the drums are pretty important to …

The Clash’s 1980 album Sandinista! in my opinion topped London Calling by far, at the time of release it was a triple album, 36 tracks this was unheard of at the time of release, the band took a loss of royalties (the didn’t get paid for the first 300,000) …

This CD has a great sound to it, definitely worthy of a review for epinions. If you don’t have this one, you need it!
Tal Bachman’s self titled CD includes the mega hit She’s So High, the one we all know and love. This CD was released in 1999 …

My favorite hip hop artist of all time is the Big Dog, Snoop Dogg. I have the collection of all his albums and I think I can acclaim myself as one of his biggest fans of all time.
There was a time when I was really into Snoop’s stuff, I …

Saliva is one cool music group with a whole lot of talent. First off these guys look like true blue rockers and the lead singer has such an awesome rocker look to himself but his. He is often sporting a cool looking goatee and in fashionable rocker clothes. His …

‘Don’t cha is the first single from Pussycat Dolls’s first album. I really like this song because it’s so energic and can make me cheer up.
‘Don’t cha is tell about the girl who feel that a boy like her, she feels that all the boy like her because she’s …

Flavored synth pops and 80’s inspired rock beats coated the self-titled debut album of The 1975, an indie-rock band formed in England.
Quite an underrated band, I dare say. In a musical world crowded by popular acts and mainstream rock bands (such as One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer), …

Overview —“ Moving Pictures, the eighth album released by Rush, is my personal favorite Rush album and despite some problems and complaints I have with the album, I still think the songwriting is quite strong. I was never a huge fan of Geddy Lee’s vocals so that’s one obvious …

Overview —“ Broken, Beat, and Scarred, the third music video released by Metallica for their latest album, Death Magnetic, is a music video that is made up completely of live clips from concerts Metallica played throughout 2008 and 2009 on the World Magnetic Tour. After two pretty poor videos …

Unplugged is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their album Hear It Is. Interestingly enough, the track opens up with a distorted guitar riff which actually has a pretty driving sound to it, certainly not the sound that the Flaming Lips would come to be known …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Diva”
Album: I Am… Sasha Fierce
Label: Columbia
Director: Melina Matsoukas
“Diva” is the third single and music video from Beyonce’s third album titled “I Am… Sasha Fierce” (following “If I Were A Boy” and “Single Ladies - Put a Ring On It”), it was filmed and released simultaneously with “Halo, …

Dancing Queen is one of Abba’s most famous songs, and in my view that is absolutely fair. The band produced a good number of extremely fine tracks in their career, but Dancing Queen must surely be counted as one of the very best of them all. Right from the …

When I was much younger, one of my favourite singers was the woman Tina Turner. These days, I still appreciate her and her music, but my appreciation just is not as strong as it was back in the day.
There were several things I had admired about this performer …

R. Kelly
“Trapped In The Closet, Part 16″
TP-3 Reloaded
Jive Records
It’s Chapter 16 of “Trapped in the Closet” and we seem to all of a sudden find ourselves trapped in the same freaken’ restaurant from Chapters 14 and 15. Twan is in disbelief over the news of his newfound fatherhood at …

U.F.O. Story is a song by the Flaming Lips which appears on their third studio record, Telepathic Surgery. The track opens up with a recording of someone talking about their experience seeing a U.F.O. which goes fittingly with the title of the track, but this does get dragged out …

I must admit, the one thing that drew me to buying this magazine in the beginning, was the notion of getting a —˜free’ cover Compact Disc at a price equivalent to just under one US Dollar, at the time (around 2006).
I turned out to be a very good buy …

I have always been the kind of person who admires music. Not only is it an art, it finds a way into your soul. Music is able to be related to and in the moment when you find a certain song, you feel like you are no longer alone …

Starlight is a track by Muse which appears on Black Holes And Revelations. Compared to most of the other tracks on this record, I suppose that I would call Starlight the most mainstream or at least most accessible track on the album. The structure of the track is very …

This two-CD set is a compilation of Beatles music fron 1967-1970, 14 songs on each CD. My favorite songs on this set are Magical Mystery Tour, Back in the USSR, Penny Lane, and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Some of the songs on here, such as …

Parabol is a song by Tool which appears on their album Lateralus. I’m not extremely familiar with Tool’s music but I’ve been trying lately to see how they are so we’ll see how this goes. The track starts off with what sounds to me to be a bass playing …

I think that there are many things to like about this album, and only a couple things to dislike. I would give it a rating of seven out of ten. I remember how I liked the album a lot at first, but somehow only a few songs on the …

This Is My Town is a song by Montgomery Gentry. It is about life in a small town and how everyone knows everyone. It talks about how most people used to be born and raised in a small town and never left or if they did it was for …

Overview - Live/Dead is the first live album put out by The Grateful Dead and it certainly allows fans and listeners to get a glimpse into what a live Dead show is like. I’m not sure about other people, but I know the first thing that I noticed when …

I have always enjoyed and admired Shania Twain’s beauty. Her CD album years before, entitled Come On Over by Shania Twain was the first time that made me having a total admiration for her brunette beauty. She looks so awesome and is indeed so super gorgeous. And …

Def Leppard are one of Britain’s most successful rock bands. They were one of the pioneers of the 80s hard rock sound, achieving massive, million selling success in the 1980s. In the 1990s, their music was no longer fashionable and their career took a slump. They changed their sound …

The Appetite Les Paul guitar is an instrument recently made by the gibson factory to honor the guitar that Slash used on almost all his albums with Guns N’ Roses. It wasn’t actually a gibson when Slash recieved his les paul, but a really cool replica of one. …

“Duel of the Iron Mic” appears off of GZA debut album “Liquid Swords”. For those of you whom are unfamiliar, GZA is part of super group Wu-Tang Clan. In the early 90’s it was safe to say that the Wu-Tang Clan had a respectable ensemble of members in their …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Me, Myself and I”
Album: Dangerously in Love
Label: Columbia
Director: Johan Renck
“Me, Myself and I” is the third single and music video from Beyonce’s solo debut album called “Dangerously in Love”, following the previous singles and videos, “Crazy in Love” with Jay-Z and “Baby Boy” with Sean Paul. This …

The Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill soundtrack CD is one of my favorites. This Disney movie starred Patrick Swayze as the legendary Pecos Bill, and it’s full of magic and adventure. The music expresses the wonder of heroes and the growing up of a …

I have known about this song for a while now, since it came out a few years ago. But I had no idea that it was by Miranda Lambert. The only time I had ever heard of her is when she won the award for best female video at …

The Purple Bottle is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their album Feels. For those of you who were disappointed with the very relaxed sound present throughout the previous track, Flesh Canoe, The Purple Bottle will not disappoint. Opening up with an energetic percussive section, the band …

R. Kelly
“You Remind Me of Something”
R.
Jive/Zomba Recordings
R. Kelly kicks off the first single and music video from his second solo effort, the self-titled “R.”. This song is called “You Remind Me of Something” and has probably one of the most memorable music videos from the R&B heartthrob. There’s hummers, …

I kind of like Will Young. And he has proved his talent in Let It Go by Will Young. I do think that he has such a great voice and he is also someone whom could write his own materials and that includes songs. Awesome, right. …

Guns N’ Roses has been one of the best hard rock bands of all time. They were a major hit since their first record and rule the whole world from 1987 to around 1994. On 1993 they recorded they best album ever, the duo “Use your Ilussion” I and …

Loaded is a very good CD by the rapper Brotha Lynch Hung. I really think that his style of rap and lyrics on this album were great. He starts the album off with a great song called DIE. Yes that is how simple the title is. Brotha Lynch Hung wastes …